"3ft High And Rising" by Bisa Butler. (Photo by Genevieve Hanson. Courtesy of Bisa Butler and Jeffrey Deitch, New York) Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcast on Nov. 27, 2023. Click here for ...

Inspired by iconic black and white photos, Bisa Butler has created life-size portraits of African Americans in quilts that explode with color. The... Bisa Butler's Quilts Feature Designs So Realistic ...

Bisa Butler’s intricate portrait quilts are often based on found black-and-white photographs of Black people—some famous, some anonymous, some familial. The New Jersey-based artist can spend thousands ...

The storytelling power of quilting is being celebrated through the latest exhibition crafted by artist Bisa Butler. Titled The World Is Yours is Butler’s beautiful collection of quilts. The show is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEWARK, N.J. -- As we continue to celebrate Black History Month, CBS2's Maurice DuBois met Bisa Butler, an artist who's elevated ...

Getting “Bisa Butler: Portraits” before the public has been a struggle against COVID-19 from the start. Days before the exhibition of the artist’s extraordinary and ebullient quilted portraits of ...

Bisa Butler hopes all who see her historic ESSENCE cover “feel the immediacy of it, the urgency of what we’ve gone through in this year.” Being tapped as the vessel through which to channel our ...

Bisa Butler’s quilted portraits are redefining what is accepted and excepted within the walls of art museums. Butler‘s unmistakable visuals forever obliterate any notion of quilting merely as “craft.” ...

The Gordon Parks Foundation has named artists Bisa Butler and Andre D. Wagner as its 2022 fellows. Art historian and curator Nicole Fleetwood, who received a MacArthur “Genius” Award last year, was ...

Her pieces meld old and new, past and future, history and hope. She transforms the traditional craft of quilting into a mosaic of fabric creating... Bisa Butler weaves the Black diaspora together in ...

Inspired by iconic black and white photos, Bisa Butler has created life-size portraits of African Americans in quilts that explode with color. The exhibit is on display at Chicago's Art Institute.